Overtaking Rules
When overtaking is prohibited and what counts as a safe passing distance -- the rules behind one of the highest-risk maneuvers a driver makes on any two-way road.
Official Questions on This Topic
- How is a driver required to conduct himself when a vehicle stops before him on approaching a pedestrian crossing?
- When are you permitted to pass another vehicle on its right side?
- Is a driver permitted to drive over the speed limit while overtaking?
- A driver of a vehicle carrying oversize freight that cannot be overtaken by other drivers is obliged to:
- When a white unbroken separation line is marked on the roadway, is it permitted to overtake a vehicle that is lawfully driving on the road’s “hard shoulders”?
- On the road is sign 405 and a motorcycle overtakes a car?
- It is prohibited to overtake before a pedestrian crossing:
- One of the conditions justifying an overtaking of a driving vehicle is:
- When is it permitted to overtake another vehicle?
- It is prohibited to overtake on a steep hill:
- When driving behind a slow vehicle on a roadway while a continuous centre white line is marked to your left:
- Is it permitted for a bus, which uses a public transportation lane, to overtake an overtaking vehicle?
- In the event of a bus driving outside the traffic transportation lane – Is it allowed to overtake another overtaking vehicle?
- When is it permitted to overtake, in one go, two vehicle that are driving before you on your lane
- Which type of vehicle is prohibited to overtake another overtaking vehicle?
- What effect does the distance between vehicles have on the overtaking process?
- What are you required to do when you see that the overtaking silver vehicle intends to return to the right lane?
- You are driving on a two-way road and in front of you drives a vehicle that signals with its left indicator:
- When is it permitted to overtake another vehicle on its rights side?
- How is a motorcyclist required to overtake another vehicle?
- When is a driver required to drive on the “hard shoulder” - where the “shoulder” is asphalt-paved and free of traffic - in order to allow another vehicle to overtake him?
- When is it permitted to pass more than one vehicle during one overtaking maneuver?
- When are you (a motorcycle rider) required to return to your driving lane at the end of overtaking?